Biology:Punctoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of gastropods

Punctoidea
A live individual of Discus rotundatus in the family Discidae
Scientific classification e
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Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Mollusca
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Gastropoda
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Heterobranchia
Script error: No such module "Taxobox ranks".: Stylommatophora
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Morse, 1864
Families

According to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005):

Punctidae
Charopidae
Cystopeltidae
Discidae
Endodontidae
Helicodiscidae
Oreohelicidae

Punctoidea is a superfamily of air-breathing land snails and slugs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the informal group Sigmurethra.

Taxonomy

The superfamily Punctoidea is classified within the clade Stylommatophora within the clade Eupulmonata. As of 2017, it contains the following families:[1]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q665799 entry